This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation. – William Kingdon Clifford
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. – Theodor Adorno
Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate. – Stephen Tobolowsky
My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to. – Wendelin Van Draanen
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. – Walter Kaufmann
All… religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson
We have no information, not even a tradition, concerning the first migration of the human race into Italy. It was the universal belief of antiquity that in Italy, as well as elsewhere, the first population had sprung from the soil. – Theodor Mommsen
Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it. – William Kingdon Clifford
Fanatics do not have faith – they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. – Yann Martel
An orthodox belief in big government’s inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry’s inability to compete with big government. – Timothy Noah
20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or any of hundreds of other belief systems. – Steven Pinker
My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife. – Steve Irwin
Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual. – Stanley Hauerwas
I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone’s real belief in something to help tell a story. I will not do something shocking for the sake of being nasty. If it’s not hurting anyone’s feelings, I’m in on the joke. – Selma Blair
It’s as if inside the White House the belief in Obama’s inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it’s a startling revelation. – Tina Brown
How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don’t see how that can become an ideology. – V. S. Naipaul
I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief. – Stephen Cole Kleene
My personal belief is that attraction to SF/F is coded right into your genes. I was attracted to monsters and robots as far back as I can remember. – Will McIntosh
To make real change, you have to be well anchored – not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do. – Twyla Tharp